Public Hearing Audience publique - Commissioner / Commissaire The Honourable / L’honorable

One was to provide strategic direction to the 16 management to the event that was taking place because of the 17 size and scope that it had grown to, and he was to serve as the 18 conduit between the actual operational side and the executive. [...] RUSSELL LUCAS: So he was the one who was 6 actually do the plan work, writing the plan and engaged in the - 7 - basically the meat and potatoes of it. [...] RUSSELL LUCAS: So they were still doing 13 the background work and so when I first became aware of it when 14 it came up at a meeting on the -- on the 18th, the initial 15 feedback that was provided to me by the members of the planning 16 team that have already been involved in two prior truck protests 17 in as many years here in Ottawa, which -- with the same mandate, 18 the same intent, but they. [...] So it was how do 24 you work with them to mitigate the risks and the impacts to the 25 community? So with this, that statement that a lot of our -- 26 the challenges and disruption would be around traffic, but we 27 also had to focus on the -- as well that -- the fact that the 28 convoy organisers were actually cooperative and were not INTERNATIONAL REPORTING INC. [...] RUSSELL LUCAS: So part of the context to 17 this, and knowing the writer and knowing the people involved, is 18 part of the challenge is the topic of mandates, the 19 restrictions, vaccinations is an extremely divisive topic.